STOLEN: Skoda Octavia vRS

PaddyFagan

Hi Folks,

Some ****** broke into my house overnight and stole my new car :mad: (may they burn in hell etc!).

Just in case if anyone spots her, Black Skoda Octavia vRS 05-KE-7460, please contact me or the gardai.

Thanks

Paddy

lomb

thats a bitch hope its insured obviosly pros that robbed it, probably on its way to mexico as we speak, to be ringed with a crashed car.

phelo05

they feckers learn from this get yourself a safe and put the key in it for the next car you get

PaddyFagan

Thanks guys,

A GPS tracking device is on the shopping list too !

MODS: Sorry wrong forum - should have been motors, still shell shocked.

mike65

Moved.

Mike.

jayok

GRRRRRR :mad: What a complete p1sser!! Sorry to hear of your loss, no too many vRS around so hopefully the cops can track it.

Can I be stupid and ask an insurance related question? Some insurance companies allow you to claim if you car is stolen without affecting your NCB. But this only applies if the car is locked and immobilsed at the time. Does this still apply if they rob your keys?

PaddyFagan

I don't know - but suspect I'm about to find out!

Paddy

mike65

Have to ask this, where did you leave the keys? Were they easy to see left on a window sill or table top in the kitchen or something? Most thieves won't risk a break-in unless they can see thier target.

Mike.

bazz26

This car was stolen for a reason - the reason being it was a vRS. The thieves knew they weren't taking a 1.4 Octavia. They don't break into your house and take your keys unless they really want your motor, possibly to sell on. I doubt that these were ordinary scumbags in shiney tracksuits, sounds like professionals to me.

I do hope you get it back and undamaged, will keep an eye out in this neck of the woods. as these are pretty rare alright.

The Termignator

From what part of Kildare was it taken?

The tax man

Even if the bástards can't see/find the keys,if they're not the usual scumbags,you'll be woken up with some prick in your room demanding you give them the keys or else. :mad: :mad:

Hopefully you'll get her back.
I'll keep an eye out too.

phelo05

The Termignator wrote:

From what part of Kildare was it taken?

if you look at his thread it says stolen from his house on his profile it says he,s from celbridge co kildare like duh

phelo05

well if anything its more than someone local who has seen you around town driving it and more than likely followed you home. were you in the house when they broke in?? and how did they enter the house??

The Termignator

phelo05 wrote:

if you look at his thread it says stolen from his house on his profile it says he,s from celbridge co kildare like duh

termignator he say thanks to clever phelo fella

@Paddy, I'm on the roads a lot down that way; I'll keep an eye out.

phelo05

The Termignator wrote:

termignator he say thanks to clever phelo fella

@Paddy, I'm on the roads a lot down that way; I'll keep an eye out.

no problem

franksm

Sorry to hear this !!

Nice looking car, I saw it yesterday or one like it on the M50 between Leopardstown and the Tallaght exit at about 1630h. Looked the biz twin exhausts on the near side.

Hope you get it back and that the mouthbreathers have something nasty happen to them.

madmorphy

I sure you don't want to hear this now,but never leave your keys down stairs how many times do people have to be told !
For extra security get a dog,doesn't have to be big and vicious just one that barks will do.
Thieves will always go for the easy option.

The General

Anyone wanna buy a 05 Black Skoda Octavia its in perfect nic

General, less of this sort of thing unless you want a ban - Mike.

phelo05

The General wrote:

Anyone wanna buy a 05 Black Skoda Octavia its in perfect nic

your a ****in wanker. mods do something with this joker. how would u like if it was your car

Nuttzz

yeah, not very funny at all

kjt

The General wrote:

Anyone wanna buy a 05 Black Skoda Octavia its in perfect nic

Thanks pretty low.


Sorry to hear about your car. I hope the insurance covers it all

mike65

Okay cool it everyone.

Mike.

NocturnalDonkey

madmorphy wrote:

I sure you don't want to hear this now,but never leave your keys down stairs how many times do people have to be told !

So you would rather the thieves came upstairs looking for the keys while you and your family sleep...

528i

The car's insured so I wouldn't worry about it. They'll find it in afew days with maybe afew dings and worn tyres etc. its not in mexico or any of that nonsense, sounds like the work of the notorious 'tinted window civic driving scrote gang' who wanted something to race. they wont wreck it but will try to keep it as long as they can by hiding it someplace unassuming for the next nights showdown with other similarly powerful and stolen cars.

Your best bet is 3am camera footage from (any number of) filling stations around the tallaght area, at the speed those lads are driving they'd run 20quids worth out of that tank in as many minutes. I'd say a scoda should take a good bit of abuse though, unless you had it chipped or something.

I agree about the alsatian (but they'd sh|te all over the place?), maybe get a hurley stick for special occasions beside your bedside locker also. I know someone who went through all this, and his biggest problem was knowing that these vermin had been looting around downstairs under his very nose.

This gang used remove the rubber gaskets around a pvc window frame and be in, out and gone in 5-minutes. according to an garda siochana

phelo05

**** that bad boy. scumbags

PaddyFagan

Hi Folks,

Thanks for (most!) of the comments. In answer to the questions, the spare key was on the table, but not visible from any window. (Only because I'd picked the spare key up from the garage last evening). The keys to my wife's car where also down stairs in her bag, they tipped out the bag, but only took cash - not the keys to her 04 Mini One, it really looks like they knew what they wanted.

The house is alarmed, and it was on, but the window they attacked didn't have a vibration sensor! (it will come Monday). There is almost no damage to the window, the vases etc from the window sill where lifted out into the garden and undamaged. It all seems very professional.....

Paddy

Total list of items stolen: my car, laptop, cash, 1 bottle water & 1 bottle of wine from the fridge.

528i

I'd put any money on it they forgot the corkscrew

seriously, sounds like very sophisticated bunch of thieves there - I wouldn't be at all surprised if they were lowered from a helicopter like in tom cruises minority report, only you'd probably have heard that unless a very heavy sleeper.

I wonder about Motion detectors wired up to a light in your bedroom and maybe automatically opening your gun closet or something..

ghostgirl

you poor thing... I semi know how you feel. I got my car stolen too from outside my door in April. The doors were locked and I had to send all sets of keys to the insurance company. All the documents were in the car cos it was going for NCT the day it was stolen! The car was found about 50 miles away burnt out. I hope you were fully comp which I am sure you are with such a nice car! I was insured 3rd party fire and theft and got back a third of what I paid for the car, which I thought was a bit harsh but c'est le vie....
I hope you get it back. I am in the west but will keep me eyes open...

phelo05

PaddyFagan wrote:

Hi Folks,

Thanks for (most!) of the comments. In answer to the questions, the spare key was on the table, but not visible from any window. (Only because I'd picked the spare key up from the garage last evening). The keys to my wife's car where also down stairs in her bag, they tipped out the bag, but only took cash - not the keys to her 04 Mini One, it really looks like they knew what they wanted.

The house is alarmed, and it was on, but the window they attacked didn't have a vibration sensor! (it will come Monday). There is almost no damage to the window, the vases etc from the window sill where lifted out into the garden and undamaged. It all seems very professional.....

Paddy

Total list of items stolen: my car, laptop, cash, 1 bottle water & 1 bottle of wine from the fridge.

did cops dust the place for prints u never know they could have slipped on someone forgetting gloves

samo

Thats unreal, sorry to hear about the loss and hope its recovered. I know it could happen anywhere but its just not the type of thing you imagine to happen in Celbridge as its a fairly quiet area and there's a ton of flashy cars around especially in the likes of templemanor and the fancier estates.

Am from celbridge myself so thats a bit of a shock ....not that my cars anyway very exciting to try and rob but anyhow makes you think gotta be vigilant.

Hope you get sorted.

Rew

PaddyFagan wrote:

The house is alarmed, and it was on, but the window they attacked didn't have a vibration sensor! (it will come Monday). There is almost no damage to the window, the vases etc from the window sill where lifted out into the garden and undamaged. It all seems very professional.....

This is going on alot in the Celbridge area. Its been attempted a few times where my parents live. They tried for the next door neighbours BMW but woke them up and set off the house alarm taking out the glass.

My mother seems to have a 6th sense for when somthings going on, she woke up and looked out the window last week and caught a load of lads in the act of doing somthing similar. My dad turned on the house lights and my mother set off a camera flash. The lads flew out of the place in what ever they were driving. She's managed to spoil more crimes like this then I can remember! Very light sleeper...

I hope these guys get caught but TBH I wouldn't have much faith in them getting put away for long...

unkel

Sorry for your troubles, PaddyFagan

The vast majority of cars stolen (not 10 year old Fiestas stolen for joy-riding) are driven away using the key just stolen from the hall table or anywhere obvious in the house. More often than not with the owners in the house

Rew wrote:

my mother set off a camera flash

Clever! Must remember that

jayok

I reckon that even if the car keys are hidden, if they want the car they'll take the car. A guy I work with had his car stole as well. It was a little more brazen in how they robbed it:

He had an M5 BMW company car parked outside his house. At about 11pm the door-bell rang and according to him four very large men stood at his front door and simply said "The car keys now!" He didn't even argue simply handed over the keys and the four left in his car. He reported it straight away to the Garda who never did seem to find it. He wasn't too upset at the car (it was a company one) he was more upset of the essentially mugging that he got. I suppose would your car be worth a beating or even you life? Don't care what I drove, that's what insurance is for!

I don't believe the car was ever found. I suppose anything that's that brazen or arrogant isn't your simple knacker joyrider, but probably a professional gang using it for a job or some sort of criminal activity.

PaddyFagan

Very much in too minds about how things would have gone if the keys where up stairs - concerns for the safety of my five month old daughter and wife, kind of out weight the thought that I might still have my car.

Yes, I do have fully comp. In an odd turn of events I hadn't managed to sell my old car (an 03 Megane coupe) so at least I still have a car, until I get this all sorted out.

Paddy

Guy:Incognito

PaddyFagan wrote:

Very much in too minds about how things would have gone if the keys where up stairs - concerns for the safety of my five month old daughter and wife, kind of out weight the thought that I might still have my car.

Yes, I do have fully comp. In an odd turn of events I hadn't managed to sell my old car (an 03 Megane coupe) so at least I still have a car, until I get this all sorted out.

Paddy

Hopefully, touch wood, nothing happens to that car. Two claims in a week or so would not make for a happyt renewal next time round.


I have a baseball bat knocking round the house that i keep meaning to stick to the underside of my bed,

d22ontour

mike65 wrote:

Have to ask this, where did you leave the keys? Were they easy to see left on a window sill or table top in the kitchen or something? Most thieves won't risk a break-in unless they can see thier target.

Mike.

Not at all the car was took either for resale or to do a few jobs in and regardless of where he puts the keys the reason they break in is get them. A safe wouldn't help either as he would be woken and forced to give the keys over through violence no doubt.

bazz26

It looks obvious to me that your car was on a professional's wanted list whether it to be sold on or used in criminal activity. I doubt that these were scumbags looking for something to do a couple of hand brake turns in on a Friday night, there are easier ways of taking cars for this.

Unfortunately the market for steeling performance cars in Ireland and driving them across to the UK on a ferry to potential customers is becoming more common. This makes it more difficult in the UK to trace their originality.

Hopefully yours will turn up soon.

unkel

PaddyFagan wrote:

Very much in too minds about how things would have gone if the keys where up stairs - concerns for the safety of my five month old daughter and wife

Good point. You're insured, just let them take it without you knowing. Awful to wake up and find you're car is gone and somebody has been in your home while you were asleep, but then again that's only material damage

If they want the car, they'll get it, no matter how. If only you could protect your home / family as you can in the US :cool:

OfflerCrocGod

unkel wrote:

If only you could protect your home / family as you can in the US :cool:

Oh yes you'd have a gun and they'd have a bloody machine gun - that makes the situation SOOO much better.

camarobill

sorry to here that paddy,my m2 gti golf was robbed in feb from my house, in prosperous :mad: never got it back.hope uv better luck,il spread the word round out my way but shes more than likely well gone out of the area.got myself an american pit bull,beats any f..king alarm.next time there looking for keys the dog can deal them some justice. :mad:

Squirrel

Sorry to hear that Paddy, but it's good to see that no-one was harmed. I'll keep an eye out but chances are if you do find it it'll be burned out, a sorry end for a great car.

dcGT

Sorry to hear about this. Something similar happened to a guy I know just before Christmas. With regard to hiding the keys, the guy I know did this. He was woken up by the scumbag in the middle of the night with a kettle of boiling water right above his head. 'Where are the keys' is all he heard.
Very scary stuff. Makes you wonder if it's really such a good idea to hide the keys.

DC.

Baffled

I think you should get yourself a dog. Nothing big, maybe just a little ankle biter that will bark if theres someone around.

I have 3 german shephards at home and they are a brilliant deterrent (sp?). Almost all of the houses in my area have been broken into at some stage except ours.

Dogs dont like it if a stranger invades their territory!

HashSlinging

phelo05 wrote:

they feckers learn from this get yourself a safe and put the key in it for the next car you get

Would you not prefer they took the car ! otherwise they could really do some damage to u, or your family.

No car is worth having your family terrorised over a car...

PaddyFagan

Hi Folks,

A dog might be a good idea - my garden ins't huge though so, I'd want to be sure the poor thing wouldn't go nuts! (Plenty of long walks I guess! Good for me as well)

The Garda Crime Scene Investigation guys where out late on Saturday evening, no prints or anything, but they did recommend fiting a sensor light as a deterant. Who knows if it would have helped, but I installed one yesterday - at least it was something I could do.

BTW The insurance company will wait 21 days before they'll payout unless it shows up in the meantime.

ds20prefecture

Paddy - in case you don't see it over on Octane - you should register & post something similar to this thread on www.briskoda.net. A lot of the vRS owners in Ireland hang out there, and they'd be most likely to spot your car.

comanche

Around this time last year alot of quick cars were been stolen around the northside. What would happen is that a bunch of lads would nick an easy to rob car and then drive around the estates robbing the quickest car the could get and then race them down at clare hall.. Gardai did feck all about it for ages. Wonder if the same thing is going on around Cellbridge!

prospect

Paddy, sorry to hear your news, vRS is a fine machine, I can understand it being on a thieves 'wanted list'.

WRT security you need 2 things, Dogs and flood lights.

HashSlinging

Where abouts did you buy it, I'd be asking serious questions at the garage where you bought it, I think the fact that you picked up the keys very recently and your car has been robbed is too much of a coincidence. sounds like an inside job, I.E. someone has access to a list of new cars and their addresses, or someone gave a heads up to someone.

IANOC

HashSlinging wrote:

Where abouts did you buy it, I'd be asking serious questions at the garage where you bought it, I think the fact that you picked up the keys very recently and your car has been robbed is too much of a coincidence. sounds like an inside job, I.E. someone has access to a list of new cars and their addresses, or someone gave a heads up to someone.

ditto

JohnBoy

years ago, early-mid nineties like, my bosses brother in law had an imprezza, back when no-one had an imprezza (one of the fast ones, not a 1.6)

Doorbell rang at about two in the morning, yer man went down to be greeted by two barrels of a sawn off. "We're taking the car, get the keys"

Handed over the keys funnily enough and the boys left, but the phone lines had been cut so it took a few minutes to raise the alarm.

he expected the guards to do nowt about it till morning but had a squad round in minutes.

the gang were collected somewhere on the way back into dublin (car was in dundalk) in a roadblock

turns out the guys in question were known to the gardai and were known to be planning a bank raid that day :O